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IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An economy-driven mapping heuristic for hierarchical master-slave applications in grid systems
In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...
Nadia Ranaldo, Eugenio Zimeo
SAC
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Provably faithful evaluation of polynomials
We provide sufficient conditions that formally guarantee that the floating-point computation of a polynomial evaluation is faithful. To this end, we develop a formalization of ï¬...
Sylvie Boldo, César Muñoz
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Case-based analysis: a practical tool for teaching computer ethics
Case-based analysis is a bottom-up methodology for ethical reasoning. In a teaching environment, it can be a useful alternative to top-down methods, such as Kantianism, utilitaria...
Michael J. Quinn
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Using Tsallis entropy into a Bayesian network for CBIR
This paper presents a Bayesian Network model for ContentBased Image Retrieval (CBIR). In the explanation and test of this work, only two images features (semantic evidences) are i...
Paulo S. Rodrigues, Gilson A. Giraldi, Ade A. Arau...
QEST
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An approximation algorithm for labelled Markov processes: towards realistic approximation
Abstract— Approximation techniques for labelled Markov processes on continuous state spaces were developed by Desharnais, Gupta, Jagadeesan and Panangaden. However, it has not be...
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Norm Ferns, ...